Empoasca morindae, Metcalf, 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 140

2. Empoasca morindae , new species ( fig. 24 , a, b).

Golden yellow with reddish-brown eyes but without other color markings.

Head with the compound eyes wider than the pronotum; crown subangulate, as long as its greatest width and as long as the median length of the pronotum; face above the antennae somewhat protuberant; below the antennae flat. Pronotum with anterior and posterior margins nearly parallel. Mesonotum subequal to pronotum in length.

Female genitalia: last ventral segment broader than long; posterior lateral angles roundly produced; the posterior border between the lateral angles almost truncate. External male genitalia: plates very long, almost as long as the apex of the anal style, slender, triangular; apices obtuse; dorsal border of the plate somewhat sinuate. Internal male genitalia: aedeagus simple, somewhat expanded near the apex; short, not more than one third as long as the genital plates; lateral processes short, about half as long as the genital plates; bisinuate with broad bases gradually tapering to slender, outwardly directed apices; genital styles flat, somewhat triangular, with obtuse apices about two thirds as long as the genital plate.

Length: to apex of tegmina, 3 mm.; to apex of abdomen, 2.5 mm.

Holotype male, Barrigada, July 6, on Morinda sp. , Swezey ; allotype female, Barrigada , July 22, on Morinda sp. , Swezey . Paratypes: five males, Barrigada , July 6, four males, Barrigada , July 22, all by Swezey on Morinda sp. ; three males, Piti , May 1, on Morinda sp. , Usinger ; six females, Barrigada , July 6, two females, Barrigada , July 22, all by Swezey on Marinda sp.; one female, Piti , May 1, one female, Dededo, May 1, one female, Orote Peninsula, May 24, one female, Machanao , June 2; all by Usinger from Marinda sp.

Figures

FIGURE 24.-Empoasca morindae: a, ventral view of female genitalia; b, ventral view of male genitalia.